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Craig Wong| Two police officers who dumped a man on the outskirts of the city on a freezing January night last year were fired yesterday, just hours after a jury convicted them of unlawful confinement.

Erin George| Anti-corporate-globalization activists are shifting their focus from the trouble with trade to the implications of last week's events in Washington D.C. and New York City. Their movement is now set t

Mark Twain| It was a time of great and exalting excitement. The country was up in arms, the war was on, in every breast burned the holy fire of patriotism; the drums were beating, the bands playing, the toy pist

Hendrik Hertzberg| The terrorists brought with them nothing but knives and the ability to fly a jumbo jet already in the air. How do you take "massive military action" against the infrastructure of a stateless, compart

Madeleine Bunting| In a crisis like this, many of the gender differences between men and women are thrown into sharp relief. At the same time, in a major crisis such as this, virtually all the reporters have been men.

Carlos Torres| On September 11, 1973, the Palace of La Moneda in Santiago was attacked by warplanes, and our democratically elected President, Salvador Allende, was killed. This marked the beginning of years of ter

Lyle Stewart| Former U.S. senator and presidential hopeful Gary Hart gave a speech September 4 in Montreal warning of a major terrorist attack that would kill thousands and wreak major changes in American society.

Linda Diebel| Experts on military intelligence say that "Black Ops'' - as unsavoury operations are called - have not abated under these rules and that making the changes won't hit the heart of what's wrong with th

Naomi Klein| Many of us, myself included, have felt little but rage and sorrow since September 11. But if our leaders are really following us, we have a responsibility to no longer act on emotion alone. If our le

Tariq Ali| The Gulf and Balkan Wars were textbook examples of the moral blank cheque of a selective vigilantism. Israel can defy United Nations resolutions with impunity; India can tyrannise Kashmir; Russia can

Suzanne Goldenberg in Jerusalem and Ewen MacAskill| European countries, including Britain, fear that Israel is using the international focus on events in the U.S. as a cover for punitive actions against the Palestinians that contravene international l

Anthony Browne| While parts of the crowds sung patriotic songs, other sections retorted with choruses of John Lennon's "Give Peace a Chance." Hundreds of people wandered around carrying placards protesting against w

Edward Said| Collective passions are being funnelled into a drive for war that uncannily resembles Captain Ahab in pursuit of Moby Dick, rather than what is going on - an imperial power injured at home for the fi

Craig Segal| Laith Marouf and Tom Keefer were expelled and banned from Concordia University after they were accused of scuffling with security guards there. The school's student union says the students have been

Rick Salutin| You can't hunt it down because no country is its home; its home is despair, delusion and faith in values such as cosmic war and an afterlife. You can't "make them pay"; they're already dead. You can'

Laura Flanders| Today, George W. Bush declared this is, "the first war of the 21st century." But no nation has declared a war on the United States. The hi-jack of four commercial airlines is not an act of war, it's

Geoffrey York| Within minutes of yesterday's terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington, U.S. defence officials were facing their first volley of tough questions. Why were they pouring massive resources into

Michael Moore| We abhor terrorism - unless we're the ones doing the terrorizing. We paid and trained and armed a group of terrorists in Nicaragua in the 1980s who killed over 30,000 civilians. That was our work. Th

Geov Parrish| Former U.S. secretary of state Al Haig was interviewed by CNN's Judy Woodruff. He decried those who might "quibble," based on "a misguided sense of social justice," with a U.S. response that takes in

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Brian Whitaker| (Please note the date of this article: <b>Monday</b>, September 10.)<br>Five hundred Websites - many of them with an Arab or Muslim connection - crashed last Wednesday when an anti-terrorism taskforc

Pam Kapoor| Welfare fraud seems to be a near obsession for governments these days. But the recent death of Kimberly Rogers shows how harsh the legal punishment can be. It's also clear that even people who do pla

Louisa Blair| Anti-globalization protesters left the streets of Quebec City to moneyed summer visitors. A horse fainted and the townspeople choked on exhaust spewed by the endless line of tour buses. "Tourism is a

Pat M. Holt| What matters is that, unlike the ancient Romans or the nineteenth-century British, the United States of America considers the feelings of the people whom, depending on your label, it is either direct

Alejandro Bustos| According to a Canadian delegation that just returned from Colombia, the war on drugs in that country is a smokescreen that hides the true cause of Colombia's civil war. One member says, "This is not